Global Tax Fairness

by Thomas Pogge, Krishen Mehta

Overview

This book addresses sixteen different reform proposals that are urgently needed to correct the fault lines in the international tax system as it exists today, and which deprive both developing and developed countries of critical tax resources. It offers clear and concrete ideas on how the reforms can be achieved and why they are important for a more just and equitable global system to prevail. The key to reducing the tax gap and consequent human rights deficit in poor countries is global financial transparency. Such transparency is essential to curbing illicit financial flows that drain less developed countries of capital and tax revenues, and are an impediment to sustainable development. A major break-through for financial transparency is now within reach. The policy reforms outlined in this book not only advance tax justice but also protect human rights by curtailing illegal activity and making available more resources for development. While the reforms are realistic they require both political and an informed and engaged civil society that can put pressure on governments and policy makers to act.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198725343
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/04/2016
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
Krishen Mehta, Senior Advisor, Tax Justice Network, and Advisory Board, Aspen Institute Business and Society Program

Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale. He holds part-time positions at King's College, London and the Universities of Oslo and Central Lancashire. Professor Pogge is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science as well as President of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network aiming to enhance the impact of scholars, teachers, and students on global poverty, and of Incentives for Global Health, a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org). Professor Pogge's recent publications include Politics as Usual (Polity, 2010); World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity, 2008); John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice (Oxford, 2007); and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (Oxford & UNESCO, 2007).

Krishen Mehta is a former partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and worked with them for almost 30 years in their NY, London, and Tokyo offices. He is an engineer by training, has an MBA, and is a Chartered Accountant. He serves on the Asia Advisory Council of Human Rights Watch, is on the Advisory Council of Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program, is Senior Adviser to the Tax Justice Network, and is a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University.

Contributors:
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan Law School
John Christensen, Tax Justice Network
Lee Corrick, OECD Tax and Development programme
Michael C. Durst, Attorney
Lorraine Eden, Texas A&M University
James S. Henry, economist, attorney, and investigative journalist
Itai Grinberg, Georgetown University
Edward D. Kleinbard, Southern California Gould School of Law
Krishen Mehta, Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK
Sol Picciotto, Lancaster University
Thomas Pogge, Yale University
Erika Dayle Siu, Tax Research Consultant
Vito Tanzi.
Harald Tollan, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nicholas Shaxson, writer and researcher
Peter Wahl, World Economy, Ecology & Development Assoc.
Johnny West, OpenOil

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Moral Significance of Tax-Motivated Illicit Financial Outflows, Thomas Pogge and Krishen Mehta1. Building Institutions for a Globalized World: Automatic Information Exchange, Itai Grinberg2. Let's Tax Anonymous Wealth!, James S. Henry3. Country-by Country Reporting, Richard Murphy4. Hanging Together: A Multilateral Approach to Taxing Multinationals, Reuven Avi-Yonah5. Stateless Income and its Remedies, Edward Kleinbard6. The Arm's Length Standard: Making it Work in a 21st Century World of Multinationals and Nation States, Lorraine Eden7. The Taxation of Multinational Enterprises, Lee Corrick8. More Than Just Another Tax: The Thrilling Battle Over the Financial Transaction Tax, Peter Wahl9. Towards Unitary Taxation: Combined Reporting and Formulary Apportionment, Sol Picciotto10. An International Convention on Financial Transparency, Harald Tollan11. Lakes, Oceans, and Taxes: Why the World Needs a World Tax Authority, Vito Tanzi12. Tax Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession, Nicholas Shaxson and John Christensen13. A Fair Deal in Extractives: The Company Profit-Related Contract, Johnny West14. Self-Help and Altruism: Protecting Developing Countries' Tax Revenues, Michael C. Durst15. Ten Ways Developing Countries can take Control of their own Tax Destinies, Krishen Mehta and Erika Dayle Sui

Editorial Reviews

One often finds that tax books, especially books on international taxation, fall mainly into two categories-those that are very theoretical and often embedded in public finance discourse, and those that are very technical and often legalistic. This is one of the few books which falls somewhere in the middle and does so in a very successful way... This is, overall, an excellent book, highly recommended to tax scholars and those following recent initiatives for international tax reform." — Christiana HJI Panayi, British Tax Review 2017 Publication

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